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  1. A Canary in the AI Coal Mine: American Jews May Be Disproportionately Harmed by Intellectual Property Dispossession in Large Language Model Training

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  2. The Dimensions of Data Labor: A Road Map for Researchers, Activists, and Policymakers to Empower Data Producers

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  3. Misleading Tweets and Helpful Notes: Investigating Data Labor by Twitter Birdwatch Users

    Article • November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  4. Behavioral Use Licensing for Responsible AI

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  5. Learning to Represent Human Motives for Goal-directed Web Browsing

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  6. A Deeper Investigation of the Importance of Wikipedia Links to Search Engine Results

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  7. Can "Conscious Data Contribution" Help Users to Exert "Data Leverage" Against Technology Companies?

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  8. Errors in Geotargeted Display Advertising

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jack Bandy, Brent Hecht

  9. Data Leverage

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  10. 3 Stars on Yelp, 4 Stars on Google Maps

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, January 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  11. How Do People Change Their Technology Use in Protest?

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  12. Teaching UI Design at Global Scales

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  13. “Data Strikes”: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Form of Collective Action Against Technology Companies

    Article • May 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  14. The Gendered Geography of Contributions to OpenStreetMap

    Article • May 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Darren Gergle, Brent Hecht

  15. Toward Universal Spatialization Through Wikipedia-Based Semantic Enhancement

    Article • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, April 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  16. Women (Still) Ask For Less

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  17. What I See is What You Don't Get

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  18. Out of Site

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  19. Examining Wikipedia With a Broader Lens

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  20. Oh The Places You'll Share

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  21. Geographic Biases are 'Born, not Made'

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Brent Hecht

  22. VizByWiki

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  23. The Sharing Economy in Computing

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, December 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Tawanna Dillahunt, Brent Hecht

  24. Simulation Experiments on (the Absence of) Ratings Bias in Reputation Systems

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, December 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Brent Hecht

  25. Toward a Geographic Understanding of the Sharing Economy

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, July 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht, Jacob Thebault-Spieker

  26. The 2016 US Election and HCI

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht

  27. Freedom versus Standardization

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Brent Hecht

  28. Understanding "Death by GPS"

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Johannes Schöning, Brent Hecht

  29. The Geography of Pokémon GO

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brent Hecht, Johannes Schöning, Jacob Thebault-Spieker

  30. The Effect of Population and "Structural" Biases on Social Media-based Algorithms

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Johannes Schöning, Brent Hecht